Presentations

Known for his engaging speaking style, Michael Ungar uses the power of story-telling to drive home essential lessons learned from his research around the world and experience working with children, youth and adults in clinical, community and workplace settings.
Some of the topics that Michael speaks on:
For adults in organizations, business and government settings:
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- Resilience at home and on the job: maintaining our capacity to cope during times of change and challenge
- Leadership that builds resilience
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For children, youth and families:
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- How to engage children and adolescents better at school
- Nine ways families, schools and communities can build children’s resilience
- The risk-taker’s advantage and why we shouldn’t over-protect our kids
- “Diagnosing” resilience across cultures and contexts: seeing the positives in young people even when there are serious problems
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For government agencies, corporations and communities:
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- Nurturing resilience through a strong community/organization
- Resilience across cultures and contexts
- Designing human services (child welfare, corrections and mental health)
- Developing corporate social responsibility campaigns that support individual and community resilience
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For researchers and evaluators:
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- Researching resilience and evaluating resilience-promoting programs
- Culturally and contextually sensitive, mixed methods approaches to transformative inquiry
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More information on Michael’s presentations and keynotes available here
Sample Presentations
Dr. Ungar on Adult Resilience: What is Resilience?
CBC Sunday Magazine – Dr. Ungar
Dr. Ungar on Building Community Resilience – Webinar
Resilience Theory: What Works
Thinker in Residence 2014: Parents Seminar
Booking Michael Ungar
To book Michael for your next event or conference, please email rrc@dal.ca.